‘Sonny’ Mehta, Longtime Editor-in-Chief of E book Writer Knopf, Dies

Ajai Singh “Sonny” Mehta, the fabled editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf who revealed such Nobel Prize-winning authors as Kazuo Ishiguro and Toni Morrison, died Monday, in keeping with a spokesman for Knopf.

Mr. Mehta, who additionally served as chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a unit of Penguin Random Home, was 77 years outdated.